A fine pair of Flight, Barr and Barr Worcester shell shaped dishes

A fine pair of Flight, Barr and Barr Worcester shell shaped dishes, each painted in coloured enamels with an exotic bird in a landscape, on a pale yellow ground painted with winged insects, within a scrolling raised paste gilt cartouche, the blue ground border with gilt dentil rim, 8 3/4" wide overall, circa 1820, printed marks in brown

Provenance; Irish Private Collection

See Henry Sandon, Flight and Barr Worcester Porcelain, page 158, plate 152, for a claret ground harlequin decorated dessert service of this form 

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